Monthly Archives: July 2017

There’s more than one way to catch a freshwater bass. Carlton Alford of La-Grange is aware of this. He is no West Point Lake beginner. Alford and Matt McClung fished deep, shallow and halfway down. They tried it all, and Alford and McClung were surprised with what they found last Sunday in the Highland Team Trail Tournament. Their best fishing ...

Pound for pound there was no better fishing team on the lake than the twosome of Frank Eslinger and Robert Medas. The hometown boys worked the numbers and caught the fish. Medas and Eslinger, two longtime residents of LaGrange, won the 10th Highland Team Trail Tournament of the year on Sunday. Eslinger and Medas made 12.6 pounds of bass stand ...

This weekend there were 30 participants during the William Griggs Basketball Shoot Out. The story line has been the same from week to week “compete, compete, compete.” Our platform allows these basketball players to give their best effort Coach Sam Cotton stated. Next weekend will be the final Saturday of the shoot out so make sure your face is in ...

There is no simple route for those who seek the No. 1 status. It is a long, hard, rocky road with pitfalls around every bend. The Troup National All-Stars knew that going in, and they knew that leaving the premises. What Troup National did in the better part of two weeks at the Dixie Youth State Tournament in Roberta was ...

John 12:24 (KJV) “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.” In this verse, Jesus was speaking of His death, burial, and resurrection. He was also illustrating to us today that we must die to this world. I know ...

GA Department of Driver Services (DDS) is excited to announce that it has partnered with Georgia-based Scope IT Consulting to develop a new Mobile App which will prove to be revolutionary in how DDS and its customers are able to communicate. The new Mobile App, which is projected for launch in late 2017 or early 2018, will not only provide ...

The following statement can be attributed to Cynthia Gibson, health law specialist at Georgia Legal Services Program. (Dalton, July 20, 2017) – 1.7 million people in Georgia received Medicaid coverage as of April this year—and the majority of them are children. That’s 17 percent of the state’s population, or nearly one in five people. Georgia spent less in Medicaid expenditures ...

MOBILE, Ala. – The Georgia Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Auxiliary Flotilla 08-01, in partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at West Point Project, will conduct two free personal watercraft and boating safety courses at the West Point Project Management Office in August. The one-day courses are scheduled for Aug. 12 and 26 ...

WASHINGTON D.C. – Congressman Drew Ferguson (R-Ga.) today voted for a number of bills to support veterans including H.R. 3218, Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2017. This legislation would make several improvements to the Post-9/11 GI Bill including lifting time limits on educational benefits, increasing funding for Reservists, Guardsmen, dependents, and surviving spouses and dependents and making ...